The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s annual Chili Cook-Off returns Saturday, Oct. 25, with a record number of teams — 55 — cooking meaty and/or vegetarian chili for cash, plaques and bragging rights. That ...
SANTA CRUZ — The pervasive smell of popcorn, corn dogs and cotton candy was layered with the aromas of nearly 50 chilis stewing at the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Saturday afternoon for the Boardwalk’s ...
“Chili is a largely a state of mind,” wrote Bill Bridges in “The Great American Chili Book,” and nowhere is that truer than in the spicy world of chili cook-offs, where a champion’s mindset — along ...